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The Damascus government released three convicts, two men and a woman, from its prisons on March 26 under a new deal with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Two of the prisoners released by Damascus In exchange for the release of the three prisoners, HTS provided the Damascus government with a map showing the locations of many graves around the Abu Duhur airbase in the southeastern Idlib countryside. According to HTS’ news network, Iba’a, the graves contained the remains of several Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers who were killed during the clashes around the Abu Duhur airbase. In September of 2015, a coalition of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, including HTS’ main core, captured the airbase after besieging it for more than 2 years. Once the attack ended, the terrorists executed dozens of Syrian service members and buried them in mass graves. Omar Ottoman, an official in HTS, told Iba’a that the terrorist group and the Damascus government are still negot

IMAGE: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Trefilov On March 25, Vasily Prozorov, an officer of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), who had fled to Russia, held a press conference in Moscow. He revealed facts and documents regarding secret torture sites, examples of political fraud, the MH17 tragedy and other key realities of the modern Ukraine. According to the ex-SBU officer,  the Ukrainian government has established a network of secret torture sites in the area of the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in the eastern part of the country.  One of them is located near Mariupol military airport. Prozorov said that he has limited information regarding the torture site but it was active as of January 2017. In the two months of his rotation in the combat zone, in the summer-fall of 2014, more than 300 people passed through this torture site, which is unofficially named “Library”. He added that according to his data, at least 2 people died from tortures there. However, the number could be

This interview was originally released by  Novaya Gazeta  on  December 19, 2014 . It includes a valuable look at the 2014 events in eastern Ukraine for people interested in the conflict. Translated exclusively for  SouthFront FSB General: [Igor] Strelkov acted at 90% on his own initiative A senior intelligence officer once recruited the future commander in chief of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) military in the security services. They say that there are no wars similar to this one at all. And the prerequisites that pushed them to the escalation are also always different, although the goals can be repeated from time to time, after decades and even centuries. But the motives that force people to take up arms are almost always the same. Some for the sake of attack, some for the sake of defense. Everything else – is nuances. FSB Major General (Ret.) Gennady KAZANTSEV (this is a pseudonym, but we know his real name) is a man with a rich and diverse experience in war. He worke

5th Special Forces Group (A) Operation Detachment Bravo 5310 arrives to meet Major General James Jarrard at the Landing Zone at base camp Al Tanf Garrison in southern Syria, 22 November 2017 by Staff Sgt. Jacob Connor. Source: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/3978211/5th-sfg-escort On January 31, Russia’s Foreign Minister spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, called on the U.S. to immediately withdraw its troops from the area of al-Tanaf in southeastern Syria. “We urge Washington to immediately withdraw its troops from al-Tanaf are and transfer control over this territory to the Syrian government, which could take care of its citizens as we see it can do,” the Russian news agency, Sputnik, quoted Zakharova as saying. The US-led coalition is supposed to withdraw from its base in al-Tanaf as a part of the White House’s decision to pullout all American forces from the war-torn country. However,  recent reports  said that there are ongoing efforts in Washington to maintain a military pre

US Army South Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Stammer US Army South Commander Maj. Gen. Mark Stammer will soon arrive in Colombia,  according to local broadcaster Caracol, which cited anonymous military sources. During his visit, Stammer is in charge of strengthening cooperation with the allied countries and developing strategies in the region to face threats and improve security strategies. The US Southern Command, of which Army South is a component, was established to conduct operations in Latin America. It is responsible for 31 states and 15 territories in Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Colombian Defense Minister Guillermo Botero  said that Stammer’s visit was pre-planned and that it is happening at the same time that US is pushing for a regime change in Venezuela is purely coincidental. “It is a pure coincidence, it could have happened (the visit) a week before, or fifteen days later, it was scheduled for this date, there is nothing exceptional,” said the Min